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The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and American Enterprise Institute are aggressively campaigning for military escalation and a tightening of sanctions.

The presumptive Democratic nominee is failing to call for sanctions to be lifted, even if just for the duration of the pandemic.

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are calling on Trump to curb the suffering. Where is Democratic leadership?

The measures—imposed by Trump with bipartisan complicity—curtail desperately needed medical supplies.

How imperial arrogance and veiled racism damned Obama’s signature achievement.

As we spiral toward a confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it’s worth reflecting on the failures to rein in U.S. aggression along the way.

We can't let Trump's belligerence undermine the climate fight of our lives.

Democratic leaders are feigning outrage, but they've supported the precursors to war.

Junior Democrats who voted against an anti-war amendment have ties to the Saudi and UAE lobbies.

Sanctions are a violent tool of U.S. control. And now this tool is in Trump's hands.

The Trump administration is pursuing catastrophe to protect U.S. dominance.

There's one important issue on which Warren has not veered far from the Democratic establishment.

Trump wants to expand U.S. dominance and empire—and he has little resistance in Congress.

The Senate has the chance to stop U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen, while pushing back against Trump's plans for escalated military confrontation throughout the region.

The Trump administration's decision to send senior officials to the annual summit of "United Against Nuclear Iran" is deeply troubling.

The selection of North, a known war criminal, shows that the NRA is fully embracing its role as an extremist right-wing organization.

Leading Democrats have bundled their push for a tough stance on Russia with escalation towards Iran.

In a sane society, people like Bolton wouldn’t be allowed on television, much less put in charge of American security.

The likely next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch-funded, far-right ideologue who supports torture, denies climate change, disparages Muslims and sounds thirsty for war.

Iranians are protesting conditions worsened by U.S. policies, but Washington's hawks see only an opportunity for regime change.

We can expect an even more aggressive foreign policy under Trump's mix of military men and ideologues.

The Iranian filmmaker's masterful, Oscar-nominated The Salesman shows the futility of progressives trying to tolerantly endure repressive regimes.

Uprooted by war and rejected by the EU and Pakistan, many Afghans live in ramshackle conditions with little-to-no aid.

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bombing of civilian neighborhoods.

Charles Glass, longtime Middle East journalist, discusses the Syrian conflict and his friendship with Edward Said.

For some, the Paris attacks were a windfall

The longtime leftist intellectual on the absurdity of American opposition to the Iran deal.

Iranian rhetoric isn't anti-Semitic—it's anti-Zionist.

U.S. media commentary on the accord portrays U.S. global military supremacy as natural and desirable.

We know what politicians from the U.S. to Israel think about the Iran nuclear deal. How about asking some opponents of Iran's regime?

There is no place in Israeli geo-strategic thinking for a militarily and diplomatically powerful Iran—with or without the bomb.

We are, indeed on the brink of global disaster, but not because of our negotiations with Iran.

Through a seaside mystery, About Elly explores the irrational rules placed on women in Iran.

It's lonely being the global policeman.

Congress couldn't undermine Obama's deal without the help of the arms industry.

The United States polls higher than Pakistan, Iran and China as a perceived menace to peace.

We must name and shame the Democratic warmongers in the Senate.

The hypocritical U.S. policy towards Iran.

On radical-emancipatory movements and false rationales for war.

Is Egypt's revolution following the course of Iran's?

A group of wealthy, hawkish Iranians-in-exile has premier access to U.S. Congress members.

Not everyone agrees it's a nuclear Iran.

A response to Matthew Cassel's "An American in Tehran."

The 'Green Revolution' won't come as soon as we think it will.

America must not give the Iranian regime what it wants: confrontation.

The case against the former U.S. ambassador to Hondurus and Iraq—and Bush intelligence czar.

Iran-contra villain Elliot Abrams is back in action